The costs of annuitizing retirement payouts from individual accounts
By: James M. Poterba, Mark J. Warshawsky.
Contributors: Warshawsky, Mark.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 6918; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 6918.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Individual retirement accounts -- United States.; 401(k) plans.; Annuities -- United States.; Retirement income -- United States.
Notes: "January 1999."

JEL no. J14, G22, H55.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 29).

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